Solanki, S. K.; Curdt, W.; Gandorfer, A.; Schüssler, M.; Lites, B. W.; Martinez Pillet, V.; Schmidt, W.; Title, A. M.; the Sunrise Team: SUNRISE: Balloon-borne high-resolution observation of the Sun. Astron. Nachrichten 324, p. 113 (2003)
Solanki, S. K.; Lagg, A.; Woch, J.; Krupp, N.; Collados, M.: Three-dimensional magnetic field topology in a region of solar coronal heating. Nature 425, pp. 692 - 695 (2003)
Usoskin, I.; Solanki, S. K.; Schüssler, M.; Mursula, K.; Alanko, K.: Millenium-scale sunspot number reconstruction: Evidence for an unusually active Sun since the 1940s. Physical Review Letters 91, 211101 (2003)
Zhang, J.; Solanki, S. K.; Wang, J.: On the nature of moving magnetic feature pairs around sunspots. Astronomy and Astrophysics 399, pp. 755 - 761 (2003)
Zhang, J.; Woch, J.; Solanki, S. K.; von Steiger, R.; Forsyth, R.: Interplanetary and solar surface properties of coronal holes obseved during solar maximum. Journal Geophysical Research 108 (A4), 1144 (2003)
Berdyugina, S. V.; Solanki, S. K.: The molecular Zeeman effect and diagnostics of solar and stellar magnetic fields. I. Theoretical spectral patterns in the Zeeman regime. Astronomy and Astrophysics 385, pp. 701 - 715 (2002)
Brkovic, A.; Landi, E.; Landini, M.; Rüedi, I.; Solanki, S. K.: Models for solar magnetic loops. II: Comparison with SOHO observations on the solar disk. Astronomy and Astrophysics 383, pp. 661 - 677 (2002)
Krivova, N. A.; Solanki, S. K.: The 1.3-year and 156-day periodicities in sunspot data: wavelet analysis suggests a common origin. Astronomy and Astrophysics 394, pp. 701 - 706 (2002)
Ortiz, A.; Solanki, S. K.; Domingo, V.; Fligge, M.; Sanahuja, B.: On the intensity contrast of solar photospheric faculae and network elements. Astronomy and Astrophysics 388, pp. 1036 - 1047 (2002)
The research group “Solar Lower Atmosphere and Magnetism” (SLAM) studies the conditions and dynamic processes in the atmospheric layer between the solar surface (photosphere) and the overlying chromosphere, an approximately 2000 km thick gas layer.
The main research fields of the department "Sun and Heliosphere" are covered by the research groups "Solar and Stellar Coronae", "Solar Lower Atmosphere and Magnetism", "Solar and Stellar Magnetohydrodynamics" and "Solar Variability and Climate".
How does our star heat its outer atmosphere, the solar corona, to unimaginable temperatures of up to 10 million degrees Celsius? With unprecedented observational data from ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft and powerful computer simulations, ERC starting grant awardee Pradeep Chitta intends to bring new momentum to the search for the coronal heating mechanism.